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"Apple Schools Wall Street: 37 million iPhones flew off the shelves in the last three months of 2011, which represents Apple's first fiscal sales quarter. Burgeoning iPhone, iPad and Mac sales sent Apple revenues to new heights. But the question of where those products and other electronic gadgets are made put Apple under the New York Times' spotlight as the paper pondered the U.S.'s waning manufacturing abilities." MacNewsWorld 7:54 AM

"Apple's Record Revenue: By The Numbers/As Apple Reports its highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever, a few numbers pop. One example: Apple has $97.6 billion in cash on hand, enough to buy Sony five times, or about half of Google." InformationWeek 8:27 AM

"Apple Sets New Bar for Industry: Apple Inc., Reporting results for the first quarter ending after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs, hit new sales and profit records based on runaway holiday demand for its iPhone and iPad tablet devices." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:51 AM

"Where Have All The Profits Gone? Gone to Apple, Every One" Tech.pinions 9:28 AM

"Apple's blow-out quarter: Once again, the Street blew it/Humiliated by a bunch of bloggers, amateur analysts and assorted day traders" Fortune 8:22 AM

"Life is Crime Review: Life is Crime puts an interesting twist into the RPG genre by adding in location-based gameplay and allowing players to rule over their favorite coffeehouse or even Taco Bell." 148Apps 9:01 AM

"Triple Town Review: This Facebook port combines match puzzling, city building and bear wrangling (bear wrangling?) into an offering that will please both the casual and the committed." 148Apps 8:09 AM

"Photos Application in iPhone: In this application we will see how to multiple photos select from the photo gallery and we can display, rotate and swipe this photo in the view." The iPhone Developer Resource 8:43 AM

"Facebook and Apple join forces to give away an iPad 3 (no, not really): With the hype machine for the iPad 3 already beginning to whir into life, it will come as no surprise to anyone that Symantec has uncovered a scam email doing the rounds purporting to give the non-existant devices away." PC World Magazine New Zealand 8:02 PM

"Harvard study finds the iPad can be a pain in the neck" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 8:02 PM

"Poll Finds Consumer Confusion on Where Apple Devices Are Made" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:01 PM

"Apple Is Peaking" ["Hi. My name is Anders and I'm an Apple skeptic. I made that clear two years ago, and the stock has more than doubled since then. So far, I've been very, very wrong."] The Motley Fool 3:04 PM

"The Apple shareholder economy/Commentary: Now that's how you create wealth" MarketWatch 12:47 PM

"Isaacson on Jobs: Should He Have Been a Nicer CEO?" ["If he didn't quite offer an answer, Isaacson did point to the company's unusually high retention rate, and suggested that, contrary to conventional wisdom, it was Apple's culture – not its products – that ultimately set it apart. 'Creating a great product isn't the hard part,' Isaacson said. 'The hard part is creating a great company that will continue to create a great product that will be at the intersection of creativity and technology.'"] Time 11:25 AM

"What Were 15.4 Million Apple Fans Thinking?" ["However, then we get to the 15.4 million iPad 2 units that Apple cleared during the holiday quarter. This is the figure that is really stunning the market. That's a sucker punch to the gut of every Apple cynic. The flying fist came out of nowhere."] The Motley Fool 9:21 AM

"Hello, Mr. Chips: I received an e-mail last week from someone who is sure to become one of my heroes — an electrical engineer turned high school math teacher. He was concerned about the proper use of technology, especially iPads, in the classroom, and had quite specific suggestions for what to do. We'll probably get to that in my next column but here I'd like to consider his more fundamental idea, which is that technology in schools can be, in many ways, more a distraction than a solution." I, Cringely 7:54 AM

"Microsoft to cash in chips on virtual currency: Microsoft will call time on its virtual currency, Microsoft Points, with a switch to real money on the cards later this year, it has been claimed." Register Hardware 11:10 AM

"How the new European data law will affect U.S. companies" ZDNet 11:20 AM

"Internet Users to Get New Rights Under EU Data Protection Proposals" IDG News Service 10:52 AM

"Feds Issue Comprehensive Cloud Security Guidance: National Institute of Standards and Technology urges government and private sector users not to leave cloud security to providers or service arrangements." InformationWeek 7:48 PM

"Obama attacks offshoring, seeks visa reform: Touts tech innovation, jobs in State of the Union speech against a mixed record so far" Computerworld 10:26 AM

"Wireless bandwidth: Are we running out of room? As mobile devices proliferate, wireless networks are edging near capacity -- a potential threat to price, performance, and innovation." Computerworld 10:27 AM